It’s tough to write a seashell blog without photos of seashells. The best way to have those photos is to take them myself. This was impossible for me to do when I lived in New Hampshire, where I lived when I began this blog. Well, not totally impossible. I had a seashell collection from my…
Tag: identifying
Identifying Pieces of Seashells Found on the Beach
Often I will pick up interesting pieces of seashells while beach-combing. I’m getting better at identifying the pieces. The more variety of shells I collect, the easier it becomes. If the bit of shell baffles me at the seashore, I search it out in my favorite seashell book, or look through my seashell collection. Seashells…
The Interesting Iridescent Pen Shell
Pen shells (family Pinnidae) are usually gray or brown in color with an iridescent sheen. They are long and tapered in a triangular shape and most of the ones I’ve seen were on the east coast beaches in Florida. They can be huge! My resource book says up to thirty-one inches in length! But…
Identifying Similar Small Shells on Sanibel Island
I don’t live on Sanibel Island and I haven’t even visited the Island in Florida for almost 20 years, but fortunately I know of a great blogger who lives there and shares her shelling knowledge with the world. Recently she posted some photos of four small, similar-looking seashells that she had collected from the beach…
The Left-Handed Seashell is the Florida Lightning Whelk
Pictures and information about the lightning whelk seashell and mollusk.
